Spenser, Plato, and the Poetics of State

Author / Editor
McCabe, Richard.

Title
Spenser, Plato, and the Poetics of State

Published
Spenser Studies 24 (2009): 433-52.

Description
McCabe views Spenser's alleged completion of Chaucer in "The Legend of Friendship" as a move to represent himself as a "Bonfont" rather than a "Malfont" poet.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.